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Acts 27:17

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Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.

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  1. Acts 27:15

    And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

  2. Acts 27:16

    And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:

  3. Acts 27:18

    And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

  4. Acts 27:19

    And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.